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Eloho Liz Ug's avatar

‘How progress is cemented’, is such a clever metaphor for this piece! And in this Nobel Prize season, this article cannot be more apt. Thank you for another brilliant thought-provoking read.

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Seun's avatar

While we appreciate this, our Oliver Twist is still asking/looking forward to the much longer essay on the housing market. 😆

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Fervent Idakwo's avatar

Aptly put. Innovation drives economic development, and individual businesses are acceptable sacrifices for innovation to thrive.

So long as there's an equally accessible enabling environments, more businesses will emerge, thrive and carry on the innovation that would create the needed job, reduce cost of production, increase quality of production and more.

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Joe's avatar

"This missing middle explains why big African cities can be congested urban hellscapes. Construction, which should be a great source of jobs and learning, becomes a stop-start affair. Projects are delayed, materials are wasted, and each new generation of builders must start from scratch. The sector fails to accumulate knowledge and remains unproductive."

Excellent point.

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